Pan-African

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English

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Etymology

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From pan- +‎ African.

Adjective

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Pan-African (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to Pan-Africanism.
    • 2018, Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body, Faber & Faber (2020), page 284:
      The young men studying at your uncle’s mission used to speak French to each other both in delight and in order to show off their erudition, before the government declared that such erudition, and the Pan-African interaction it engendered, was unnecessary for natives and banished the language from their classrooms.

Noun

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Pan-African (plural Pan-Africans)

  1. A supporter of Pan-Africanism.